Question 1

This research design involves an extremely deep and detailed information gathering from a single individual over a long period of time.

Accepted Answer

Case study design
% correct 95 a = 95 b = 5 c = 0 d = 0 r = .21

Question 2

When Louisa and Burt were married,their friends were unsure of whether the marriage would last or end in divorce.However,after the two divorced,many of their friends commented to each other about how certain they had been that things would not work out from the beginning.This is an example of

Accepted Answer

hindsight bias.

Question 3

A student researcher wishes to maximize the external validity of her research design.What research method should you recommend to her?

Accepted Answer

Observational

Question 4

A research design that examines one person or a small number of people in depth,often over an extended time period is called

Accepted Answer

a case study.

Question 5

Professor Williams wants to know if "real" college students exhibit the same kinds of behaviors in class that subjects who were paid to act like college students do.She decides to have someone come in once a week to her classes to record the types of nonverbal behaviors that students engage in while listening to her lectures.This would be an example of which kind of study?

Accepted Answer

Naturalistic observation

Question 6

The __________ bias is the tendency to overestimate how well we could have successfully forecasted known outcomes.

Accepted Answer

hindsight

Question 7

Dr.Jones wants to make sure that the findings from his most recent observational study on facial expressions can be generalized to real-world settings.Dr.Jones is concerned about what concept?

Accepted Answer

External validity

Question 8

People's tendency to be more certain about the correctness of their beliefs than they should be based on their actual level of accuracy is what psychologists call

Accepted Answer

overconfidence.

Question 9

A group of student researchers divides up the different times of day and night and the buildings on their campus in order to determine when people will hold a door open for another person.These researchers are most likely using which research method design when conducting their study?

Accepted Answer

Naturalistic observation

Question 10

Although Professor Smith went to great lengths to conduct a study using naturalistic observation and has confidence in his findings,he should be most concerned with which limitation of this research technique?

Accepted Answer

An inability to draw cause-and-effect conclusions

Question 11

"Joe knew that the Patriots were going to lose the Super Bowl.Despite their perfect record,and all the experts expecting them to win,they never really had a chance." Joe's overconfidence after the fact is an example of what concept?

Accepted Answer

Hindsight bias

Question 12

Each year,psychics make predictions about events they believe will occur,though few of these events ever do.Psychics are quite certain of their claims despite their frequent,later inaccuracy.This finding would be consistent with the psychological phenomenon known as

Accepted Answer

overconfidence.

Question 13

Jerome was uncertain of the correctness of his answers to many of the questions on his General Psychology exam.After seeing his score,an A,he subsequently told his friends about how he knew he aced the exam as soon as he had taken it.This demonstrates the influence of ________ on our judgments.

Accepted Answer

hindsight bias

Question 14

When a researcher tests a hypothesis,he or she is often hoping to gather information that is consistent with a particular theory.When,more specifically,is a researcher able to say that he or she has "proven" a theory?

Accepted Answer

None of these; a researcher is never able to say that he or she has "proven" a theory.
% correct 60 a = 10 b = 5 c = 25 d = 60 r = .29

Question 15

Watching behavior in real-world settings is known as

Accepted Answer

naturalistic observation.

Question 16

A researcher is interested in determining how frequently bullying behavior occurs in real-life settings.This researcher would best be advised to use the

Accepted Answer

naturalistic observation design.

Question 17

Dr.Watson wanted to know which gender was better at sharing at the sixth-grade level,so he went to the local middle school to observe lunch periods.This is a form of

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